Product sheet Vlaemsch( ) Deer
Designer:
Big-Game
Year:
2005
Big-Game
Year:
2005
'Heritage In Progress'
Can heritage be bought? Hunting trophies call to mind those chalets in the Ardennes or the Alps that we head for during the weekend to get away from urban life. Here, Big-Game are brushing away the cobwebs from a symbol of tradition. The moose, stag and doe heads are made of plywood plates that fit into each other and are delivered in flat packages, just like building sets.
Beechtriplex,
Roedeer 10x17xH30cm
Deer 52x25xH70cm
Moose 96x62xH86cm
For “HERITAGE IN PROGRESS”, their first collection presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2005, Big-Game are confronting two radically opposed notions: heritage and contemporary lifestyle.
While heritage places the object in the continuum of time, the current consensus regarding speed goes against any kind of continuity. How are we to confront our mobility and so-called “zapping culture” with cultural references passed down to us? Heritage can be the heads of animals we didn’t hunt, the tables too heavy to be moved and the centre lights you just can’t remove the dust from. Humour and distance are to be found in HERITAGE IN PROGRESS as much as technical and economic realism. The objects displayed are thought out for industrial mass production.
The fruits of this experience are: a coat peg, some trestles, two lamps, three hunting trophies, all depicting the clash between a certain bourgeois culture and the realities of today’s way of life.
Can heritage be bought? Hunting trophies call to mind those chalets in the Ardennes or the Alps that we head for during the weekend to get away from urban life. Here, Big-Game are brushing away the cobwebs from a symbol of tradition. The moose, stag and doe heads are made of plywood plates that fit into each other and are delivered in flat packages, just like building sets.
Beechtriplex,
Roedeer 10x17xH30cm
Deer 52x25xH70cm
Moose 96x62xH86cm
For “HERITAGE IN PROGRESS”, their first collection presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2005, Big-Game are confronting two radically opposed notions: heritage and contemporary lifestyle.
While heritage places the object in the continuum of time, the current consensus regarding speed goes against any kind of continuity. How are we to confront our mobility and so-called “zapping culture” with cultural references passed down to us? Heritage can be the heads of animals we didn’t hunt, the tables too heavy to be moved and the centre lights you just can’t remove the dust from. Humour and distance are to be found in HERITAGE IN PROGRESS as much as technical and economic realism. The objects displayed are thought out for industrial mass production.
The fruits of this experience are: a coat peg, some trestles, two lamps, three hunting trophies, all depicting the clash between a certain bourgeois culture and the realities of today’s way of life.
Designer:
Address:
11 Rue du Nord
1005 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone +41-(0)76-492 89 27
www.big-game.ch
E-mail contact
Product overview
Big-game
11 Rue du Nord
1005 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone +41-(0)76-492 89 27
E-mail contact
Product overview
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